When Rufus Clifty Jarvis was born on 24 November 1855, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, his father, Edward Edmund Jarvis, was 26 and his mother, Amanda Catherine Mercer, was 23. He married Evanna Markwell on 3 April 1895, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Summer's Magisterial District, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 January 1920, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 64.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (of Norman origin): from the Old French personal name Gervais(e), itself from ancient Germanic Gervas, with gair ‘spear’ as the first element and an uncertain second, perhaps a borrowing of Celtic wass- ‘servant, vassal’. The Latinized name Gervasius was borne by a Christian saint, martyred under the Roman Emperor Domitian, who became one of the patrons of Milan.
English: in Yorkshire, sometimes a habitational name from Jervaulx in East Witton (North Yorkshire). The place takes its name from the river Ure + Old French val, vals ‘valley’.
Americanized form of French Gervais and of its variant Gervaise, cognates of 1 above.
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